Tagged The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful, series ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of BBC Television Centre. (Except maybe for Doctor Who.) Intriguingly, there is a key link between these sci-fi staples, and that is the wonderfully quirky Douglas Adams, creator of The…

Adding a touch of Peter Jones-esque class, animator Andrew Orton has used time travel (not before discussing with his broad-minded and well-adjusted family the possibility that he may become his own father) to enhance the already superb, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Dalek Entry. The entry, which adds to the cannon disco Davros, his…

Our Colin is moonlighting in another sci-fi legend! Later this year he’ll be a special guest star as ‘The Voice of the Book’ in the all-singing, all-sound-effecting Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Radio Show Live!. Those of us who’ve come to know Colin’s Sixth Doctor all-over again through his Big Finish audios know he’ll be…

Fancy helping to finance Sophie Aldred’s new film? It’s not a joke – you can actually be involved! The Search for Simon is the first feature film directed and co-written by award-winning filmmaker Martin Gooch. It tells the tale of a man who is convinced that his brother was abducted by aliens and has spent…

We’re not big fans of celebrating the birthday’s of those that are sadly no longer with us, but it’s worth sharing with Doctor Who fans today that Google is commemorating what would have been Douglas Adams’ 61st birthday with some awesome themed pages. For those of you unaware, Douglas Adams sadly died on May 11th…

New Doctor Who eBook writer Eoin Colfer – he of Artemis Fowl and the sixth Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy novel – has appeared on YouTube to talk about A Big Hand For The Doctor and his love of the series. Recalling the wonder of research for writing the story (“lying on the sofa watching…

Here’s a fantastic example of the creativity of Doctor Who fans, a YouTube video that is essentially an entry in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy describing the threat of the Daleks, in a convincing Douglas Adams pastiche. There isn’t an awful lot more to say about it, other than to click play and enjoy!…